{"id":350054,"date":"2025-12-15T18:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350054\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:26:12","slug":"tomago-a-sweet-deal-for-norway-and-china-but-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350054\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomago a sweet deal for Norway and China. But taxpayers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does the Albanese government actually have any backbone when it comes to spending discipline? It has flagged spending cuts in this week\u2019s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook document to offset a surge in what it deems \u201cnecessary spending\u201d, such as much-needed additional expenditure for Australia\u2019s veterans after the Coalition nickel-and-dimed our ex-ADF members for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in other areas, it seems the government is simply addicted to handouts to multinationals \u2014 and its deal with Rio Tinto last week on the future of the expensive and enormously energy-hungry Tomago aluminium smelter in the Hunter Valley in NSW will reward a strange collection of bedfellows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does the Albanese government actually have any backbone when it comes to spending discipline? It has flagged spending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[53419,2324,64,63,99,160281,2572,192786,84,37150,147844],"class_list":["post-350054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aluminium","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-chinalco","tag-energy","tag-norsk-hydro","tag-politics","tag-rio-tinto","tag-tomago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}